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Hal Blumenfeld, MD, Ph.D., the Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), ...

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I recently prepared myself for the hardest reporting assignment of my career: sitting still for 15 minutes. I was about to have my brain scanned while I meditated. Researchers at Harvard Medical ...

The greatest therapeutic effects of psychedelics appear to occur long after the drug is gone. New research suggests they ...

Reading literature does the opposite. It cultivates inference, analogy, critical analysis, and empathic imagination. It works spiritually like meditation. It deepens empathy by allowing the reader to ...

Patanjali opens the Yoga Sutras with a definition, not an instruction. Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. The word chitta covers the entire field of ...